Plot
The story is set some time before the events of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and begins in medias res. Nathan Drake is somewhere in Central America, following mercenary Jason Dante, who's ordered his men to kill Drake on sight. After a few gunfights, one appears to succeed with an RPG.The game then flashes back two weeks. Drake and Dante, revealed to be old friends, arrive at a dig site in Panama headed by Dante's "partner" Marisa Chase, who doesn't trust him. At the site, they find corpses of Spanish conquistadors who were poisoned and a grave marker with a Visigoth (precursor to Spanish) symbol. Chase also shows Drake her amulet, which Dante doesn't know of. The dig is then interrupted by Dante's real partner, revolutionary leader Roberto Guerro, who takes over and captures the two.
After Drake escapes from a burning building at Guerro's base and saves Chase, they go to retrieve her stolen amulet from his office. Afterwards, they are chased by Guerro to the top of a waterfall, but escape. They then go to the house of her grandfather, Vincent Perez, who found the Amulet at the site and, after being diagnosed with cancer, left further work to Dante, who paid off Guerro for access to the site. In Perez' study, Drake realizes that the marker referred to the Sete Cidades, an ancient Christian sect who were dedicated to finding seven cities of gold after they were apparently found by Spanish monks led by Friar Marcos de Niza.
Following further clues, one referring to a "Sword of Stephen", they go to a sinkhole near ruins where Perez seems to have been, and where they find the "Chamber of the Seven Fathers", a room containing the orders secrets. There, they learn that the cities were never found, but they discover that the Sword of Stephen is in fact the sword of Esteban the Moor, one of the monks in the expedition, whose empty (except for the sword) tomb they soon find along with Perez' corpse and information about one of the cities located here, Quivira.
Unfortunately, they are interrupted by Dante, who accidentally insults Guerro in front of him, making him throw him off a balcony. After Guerro escapes with both Chase and the sword, Dante, who survived, teams up with Drake and they barely escape, too late to save Chase. Enraged, the two part ways, now officially enemies.
Soon after, Drake, now joined by Victor "Sully" Sullivan, follows rubbings he made of symbols he found on the sword to a temple complex, known as the Temple of Serpents, believed to be the entrance to Hell, where they witness a brutal battle between Dante's and Guerro's men. Afterwards, Sully is injured and sends Drake off alone. He makes it to the temple, in a repeat of the opening, and survives the RPG. He then makes his way to the entrance of Quivira, where he saves Chase from Guerro's men, who are trapped by Dante's. After Chase insists that they continue, Drake uses the amulet, which is a key, to open the entrance and they enter.
After crossing a massive lake, they make it to the center of Quivira: the Golden Abyss, a massive room whose walls are lined with gold. They also find the corpse of Esteban, who was sacrificed by Marcos to seal the gates (as had the soldiers from the dig site). Unfortunately, a geiger counter reveals the gold to be radioactive. Dante, having dealt with Guerro's men, arrives and reveals that he knew about the radiation but still intends to sell it on the black market (Guerro wanted it to fund his now defunct revolution). However, Drake beats him in a fist fight and, after he and Chase get away, she detonates explosives, sealing the cavern and killing Dante and his men.
Unfortunately, Guerro soon appears and attacks with an RPG, the last of his army. With Chase's leg trapped under a fallen pillar, Drake fights and tricks Guerro into falling through a damaged bridge to his death. After Drake frees Chase, they escape in a helicopter piloted by Sully. Chase tosses away the amulet, feeling it belongs in hell with the rest of Quivira, and they leave, while at the same time, suggesting a romance between the two.
Development
The game was developed by SCEA's Bend Studio, overseen by Naughty Dog. The game was officially unveiled with a brief gameplay demo, alongside the announcement of the PlayStation Vita, on January 27, 2011.On June 2, 2011, the official title for the game was unveiled as Golden Abyss, and numerous hands-on previews of the game were released across several sites. This was the first public appearance of the game since its unveiling in January.[4] Prior to the announcement though in May 2011, it was rumored that the game's title would be Uncharted: Golden Abyss, before any official announcement from Sony.[5] The game features touch and motion based controls for navigation and aiming, though these are optional control schemes.[4] The game is being developed by Sony Bend Studio, who are being overseen by Naughty Dog. A brief gameplay demo has been shown. It is known that the game will have an optional touchscreen control feature and motion sensitive controls. In a demo at E3 2011, it was shown that weapons can be picked up and reloaded by tapping the weapon icon on-screen. Bend studio creative director John Garvin has confirmed that Naughty Dog allowed them to use their mo-cap and voice over studios. It has been confirmed the game will contain over 2 hours of cutscenes. The game doesn't run on the full resolution of the OLED screen of the Vita (960 x 544), instead it runs on a lower resolution (800 x 450)
Nolan North revealed in an interview that he will return to play Drake, lending his voice acting talents along with motion capture work, as in the console games. He also revealed that the story was also being written by Garvin. According to a motion capture video released from PlayStation, Richard McGonagle is set to return in the game as well as Victor Sullivan. Naughty Dog co-president Christophe Balestra confirmed the game's stance in the franchise, as well as suggesting a greater focus on exploration rather than gunplay.
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